I got gentoo up and running on my first try (oh lucky me!) and it's working very sweetly. I'm really impressed and give my thanks to all Gentoo developers and all the experts who populate these forums. I couldn't have installed so well or easily without searching here or reading the very good docs.

My questions:

1. Now I'm trying to figure out how $PATH is set on boot. I want to use the paths set in profile.env but I've had to source it by hand several times.

2. I ran rc-update add cups default to start cups at boot. And boot messages indicate that it is starting. Yet a ps ax | grep cupsd shows no cups. KDE tells me cups isn't running. And my browser can't connect to localhost:631. What else should I be looking at to find out why cups is crashing?

3. When I started booting right into X I seemed to have lost the default prompts I had in Konsole and Xterm. Instead of my username and current directory, all I've got is sh-2.05a$. What to do?

Check in /var/log/cups/error_log for CUPS errors. Most important stuff will probably be in /var/log/everything/current as well, depending on which system logger you use.

O.k I did that discovered why cups was crashing but now that I can load it successfully I can't get it to work. When I try to bring up localhost:631 I get a "Forbidden. You don't have permission..." message--even as root! And when I try to print from a kde app I get a message:

Quote:

An error occured while retrieving the printer list:
The IPP request failed for an unknown reason.

I should say here that I'm trying to print to network printers and that cups does see them. The error_log reports

When I use kdm to log in as a regular user neither ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile is sourced. When I use a console I don't get any of the prompts or aliases defined in those files. When I use kdm to login as root everything is fine.